The occupation - on the road linking Mexico City with the beach resort of Acapulco - came in response to the murder of vigilante leader Guadalupe Quinones Carbajal on Monday.

BBC: Mexico vigilantes detain police in Guerrero

At its heart, though, Nice is a city, not a beach resort.

BBC: The perfect trip: Provence and the C?te d��Azur

Among the other choices is a popular 1950s-themed amusement park called Plearn Warn, near the beach resort city of Hua Hin, where King Bhumibol maintains a residence.

WSJ: A Newer Nostalgia

In the resort city of Virginia Beach, Republicans defeated the one remaining Democratic legislator by depicting him as a double-dipper padding his income as a court-appointed overseer of the financial affairs of the dead.

ECONOMIST: Elections in the South